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Reference number

SM 33/3/B56

Purpose

[54] Design for grate and fender

Aspect

Elevation of Design for the Grate and Fender with feint pencil detail of quatrefoil ornament

Scale

to a scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Marquis of Buckingham, for Gothic Library at Stowe

Signed and dated

  • 19/02/1807
    Lincolns Inn Fields / Feby 19 1807

Medium and dimensions

Pen, green, sepia and yellow washes, with multi ruled and sepia wash border on laid paper (455 x 653)

Hand

Soane office
There is no record in the Soane office Day Book (for 19 February 1807) of any one working on Stowe (or grates and fenders).

Watermark

Edwards & Pine, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, 1801

Notes

Usefully shows the executed design for the chimneypiece.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk